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EFCC Arraigns Businessman for N500million Fraud---Docks Internet Fraudster for $6,300 Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on May 12, 2015 arraigned one Uche Obodoekwe alongside his company DE CANON Investment Limited before Justice M.B Idris of the Federal High Court Lagos on an 8-count charge bordering on Money Laundering.

He allegedly used the property of an insurance firm, Royal Exchange Assurance Plc as collateral to secure a N500, 000,000 (Five Hundred Million Naira Only) loan from the defunct First Inland Bank, purportedly to purchase about two hundred million units of shares.

However, after taking the facility, the accused neither used the money to buy shares nor service his obligation to the bank.

Investigations revealed that N480m of the said loan was placed on call deposit by Uche, which he eventually converted to personal use.

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Count one of the charge reads “that you Mr Uche Obodoekwe and De canon Investment Limited between 22nd January 2008 and 28th January 2008 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, converted an aggregate sum of N458,500,000 (Four Hundred and Fifty Eight Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira Only) by placing same into call account with the First Bank of Nigeria Plc, which sum formed part of the funds you derived from an illegal act to wit: stealing by conversion of Royal Exchange Assurance Plc’s funds entrusted in your care by the said Royal Exchange Assurance Plc and with the aim of disguising the illicit origin of the said sum and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 14(1)(a) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2004.”

The accused pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him.

Justice Idris granted the accused persons bail in the sum of N10, 000,000 and two sureties in like sum. The sureties must provide affidavit of means while the accused passport is to be deposited with the court registry.

The case was adjourned to June 17 and 18, 2015 for commencement of trial.

In a related development, the EFCC has arraigned one Adekunle Olayemi before Justice Lawal Akapo of Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja on a 3-count charge bordering on possession of false documents and obtaining money by false pretence. When the charges were read to the defendant on May 12, 2015, he pleaded not guilty.

One of the counts read: “Adekunle Olayemi (a.k.a Timmy Mike and ‘Rachael Williams ) on or about the 7th day of May, 2014 at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division had in your possession a document in which you represented yourself to one Mr. Orest as Timmy Mike and demanded for the sum of $5, 800 (Five Thousand, Eight Hundred Dollars) so that you could help his lover from being prosecuted, which representations you knew or ought to have known to be false having regard to the circumstances of this case”.

The prosecution counsel, Mustafa Aliyu asked the court to fix a date for trial in view of the defendant’s plea of not guilty. However, the defense counsel, Akin Bayidada pleaded with the court to grant his client bail on liberal term as the offence was bailable.

Justice Lawal-Akapo adjourned the case to 17th of June, 2015 and ordered that the defendant be remanded in Kirikiri maximum prison.

Also, the EFCC arraigned one Adebanjo Olamilekan( a.k.a Candice Gloria) before Justice Lawal Akapo on a two count charge for obtaining money by false pretence. The accused is alleged to have defrauded one Collins, an American, of $2,500.

The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Justice Akapo adjourned the case to June 10, 2015 for hearing.

Similarly, one Owolabi Lateef ( a.k.a Timmy) was arraigned before Justice Lawal-Akapo on a two count charge of forgery and being in possession of a false document. The defendant was allegedly found with a letter of conviction purportedly from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, in which one Miss Gloria convicted for drug trafficking, would serve eight years jail terms or pay a ransom of 8,800 United States Dollars to procure an acquittal.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The case was adjourned to June 10, 2015 for hearing of the bail application.

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I won’t share govt money to anybody – el-Rufai

The Kaduna State Governor-elect, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, says it will be a wishful thinking for anybody to believe that he will share public fund to individuals or groups in the state after May 29.

He said his administration would not condone the sharing of public funds to anybody in the name of godfather or group, no matter how highly placed. Rather than doing that, el-Rufai said the state resources would be judiously utilised for the development of the state and the people.

This was just as the governor-elect said that the debt profile of the state would run into N100bn before the May 29 hand over date.

El-Rufai noted that as the administration of the Peoples Democratic Party ended in May, both at the federal and state levels, what both the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari and himself needed was prayers from Nigerians to succeed.

The former Minister of the FCT added that the government of President Goodluck Jonathan and that of Governor Mukhtar Yero had become so bad that they had to obtain loans to pay salaries.

According to el-Rufai, Nigerians should stop congratulating him and the President-elect but should rather pity them and pray for them to succeed because of the “bankrupt economy” they would inherit.

El-Rufai spoke at a reception organised for him by the Kaduna Peoples Association at the Arewa House, Kaduna on Saturday.

The governor-elect , who told the gathering that the state, led by Yero, had incurred N90bn debt, noted that before the May 29 hand over date, the debt might increase to N100bn.

Meanwhile, at a prayer session for them by the APC Yoruba Political Forum in Kaduna State on Saturday, el-Rufai insisted that the incoming government needed nothing but prayers from Nigerians.

The governor-elect said,

“When people call to congratulate me or come to congratulate me and General Buhari, I always tell them, thank you, but what we need is your sympathy and prayers.

“This is because, myself and Buhari are taking over bankrupt governments; it is so bad that the Jonathan administration is finding it difficult to pay salaries. In fact, they had to obtain loan to pay salaries.

“In the case of Kaduna State, the Peoples Democratic Party’s government has incurred debt to the tune of over N90bn and this may get to N100bn before May 29. Therefore, what you have done is exactly what we need to succeed.”

El-Rufai urged other elected officers to strive hard to deliver the dividend of democracy to the electorates. He warned that if they (elected officers) failed in the discharge of their duties to the people, they would be voted out like the PDP come 2019. He assured the people that in his administration, there would be no discrimination among indigenes or settlers while noting that the Yoruba community had lived peacefully with their hosts over the years in the state.

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Enough of your hate & antagonism on my person - Gen Olukolade writes Oby Ezekwesili, BBOG organizers

Representative of The Defense Headquarters, Gen Chris Olukolade has conveyed a letter to the convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group, Dr Oby Ezekwesili and different individuals from the group, Mrs Hadiza Bala Usman and Bukky Shonibare, speaking to them to stop what he termed the “disdain and careless hostility” the group has propelled on his individual since the advocacy for the abducted Chibok young ladies began in April a year ago.

Gen Chris Olukolade, in the letter, expressed that he had a life after the military and would be reasonable for the group to “work only with the end goal of devastating my notoriety and years of submitted and unblemished record of administration to my nation.

Continue reading bellow.

The letter in part reads;

“Being in the forefront of the efforts to disseminate information is a job I do with passion and sense of responsibility. I do not deserve the hatred and mindless antagonism your organization has continued to unleash on me. I certainly have a life out of here and it is unfair to work purely for the purpose of destroying my reputation and years of committed and unblemished record of service to my country. Despite the regular focus and disdainful reference to all communication from me as prompted by those who are so determined to ruin other people’s name and career, I have maintained the restraint required of me both by training and upbringing. Indeed, I am also conscious of the enormous power you wield.

The belief is that your organisation has the determination to ruin the name, career, and reputation of some targeted military officers among whom I have been specifically marked for such cruel treatment. I can only leave such matter to God and the good judgement of people who read or hear you. I am so sure I will enjoy the blessing of being vindicated at last. Meanwhile, I wish your team will consider my point here and spare me and the Nigerian military the undue attacks we have continued to be subjected to in the name of monitoring or calling for accountability.

We call for fairness as against the present campaign that is fraught with calumny and promotion of one man’s malice against us and anything government. I will not be surprised if this appeal draws more or fresh vitriol from your organisation, especially at the prompting of the hawks in your midst who are the disciples of that prominent member and proponent of the malicious campaign. This is more likely, considering the determination and unhidden hatred of those who have been acting with a view to drawing me out for a street fight. I can assure you that I will not react or join issues under whatever provocation. I will be leaving all such sworn enemies to their conscience and God if they believe in Him at all. To you as an organisation, please save your platform from being used to perpetrate this injustice as inspired by the prominent and phony member of your BringBackOurGirls campaign.” he said

Acknowledging that the group and the military can work together to achieve more result to finding the girls, Gen Olukolade appealed to the group to stop its “hate campaign”. He denied claims that the military was engaging in propaganda in any form

“Indeed, there is still room for more merciful and robust engagement or interface between you and the government and security agencies in the drive to secure the return of our girls. Enough of undue hate campaign and antagonism. I have followed your activities with due interest. I personally have nothing against your organisation or its advocacy concerning efforts to recover our girls from captivity of terrorists. I believe that someday, both your efforts and that of the Nigerian military will be duly understood and appreciated. It is unfortunate that some have sought to equate our efforts to give accounts of activities on the nation’s war on terror as propaganda or cover-up. This is not true. We know the difference. The fact is that the battle situation around could be very fluid and susceptible to rapid changes. The situations around the battle could also change accordingly in an inexplicable manner. This trend is also compounded by various perspectives that have been employed to seriously polarise the understanding of the situation along the line of all kinds of sentiments and biases prevailing in the environment. We cannot engage in a shouting match with those who have other motives. We can only try to explain situation to the best of our understanding and available information. The report we present on situations are based on the available information and observance of the elements of propriety, security, policy and accuracy, which has remained our guiding principles. It is really not true as you have been made to assert repeatedly that the Defence Headquarters and myself are the only sources of information on the operation.

The sweeping judgement and insistence that we must do things in a particular way or your claim that we do not follow best practices as well as your remarks comparing our approach to that of other armies is very unfair. Indeed, you must know that no two military operations are the same, and the conduct must endeavour to reflect the realities and peculiarities being confronted in the field. Your allegations or claim that we lack transparency is definitely not well informed neither is it being expressed in good faith.” He stated that no one was being restrained from going to the restive areas to carry out their independent verification of facts presented by the military.

He said the only concern of the military is the safety of anyone who wish to carryout such exercise “Be assured that nobody has been restrained from accessing the mission area in the ongoing operation except when there is clear case of undue interference with safety and operational environment. Infact, occasionally, we conduct the media on tour of the operational area. Our concern remains the issue of safety for anyone in search of information. Much as we want to assist genuine seekers of information, we do not feel obliged to devote scarce resources to satisfying the fancy of pleasure seeking adventurers or the curious and mindless critics who just want to roam around with questionable motives. We should not be blackmailed into compromising the security of information and operations in the name of undefined idea of transparency. We have strived to keep the populace informed in the best way possible in the circumstances we find ourselves.”